Okay, this report was supposed to come out on Sunday the 5th of Jan. But at the last minute I decided to take some R&R to recover a bit from the spring of special outreaches. I’m back on deck now and so let me update you with how the outreaches for Dec 2024 went.
But first, I just want to take a moment to remember Stephen Ripley, who sadly passed from this earth on the 16th of December. Stephen and his wife Margaret regularly joined us for the abortion/gospel outreach we used to run outside the hospital. It was an honour to be able to serve next to Stephen, and am looking forward to seeing him again when I join him in graduation to heaven! My condolences to Margaret & family at this time.
So, I can’t really remember the details of my gospel conversations during December. So, I’m going to let the pictures I dredged up do most of the talking instead.
We had one special outreach. It was the boxing day gospel tract outreach. It was great to have Martin from Hamilton with me again. He is usually in Christchurch for holidays around this time of year. Between us we were able to hand out about 3 to 4 hundred Christmas tracts in 2 x 2 hour outreaches: Riccarton in the morning, and in the city in the afternoon. It was pouring with rain in the afternoon, but that didn’t stop the people out bargain hunting - and getting a bargain they didn’t expect too: the gospel! Even though the focus was on distributing tracts, I still had many gospel conversations too.
Well, I’ll leave it at that. No special outreaches for the rest of January. Instead I’ll enjoy getting back into my regular routine of street and online outreach. Please continue to keep the Christchurch outreach team in prayer!
View previous Christchurch (NZ) report (1 December 2024)
Christchurch (NZ) Team
Weekly outreaches:
Tue 3:30pm - 5:30pm - Riccarton (corner of Riccarton Rd and Rotherham St)
Fri 1:30pm - 3:30pm - City (Bridge of Remembrance)
Sat 11am - 1pm - Riccarton (corner of Riccarton Rd and Rotherham St)
Sun 1:30pm - 3:30pm - City (corner of Colombo St and Cashel St).
Contact Glen Richards or Andy Barlow for more information.